Full-Time
Back-end PHP Developer

Job Description

[NOTE: YOU MUST APPLY FOR THIS ROLE VIA OUR API]

We have a grand ambition to transform how retail investors understand the stockmarket. We’re looking for a candidate that has passion for building great products and who wants to be part of a deeply customer focused company.

Our company is over 2 years old, we have over 100,000 users worldwide (mostly in the US), we are revenue generating and will be expanding globally in 2017. Users love our innovative approach to using data visualisation to help them make investing decisions.

Most importantly, we get to spend everyday doing something we love, it’s a lot of fun!

Before you apply:
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You must have an extensive collection of personal or commercial projects that showcase your abilities. We do not consider university projects as being part of a portfolio and will disregard them. University degrees are not necessary, we love self-taught developers.

Take some time to explore our product, if you get invited to an interview we expect you to know it inside out. We love constructive criticism and are always open to unique perspectives or being impressed by new ideas.

Technically we are looking for:
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• Self-motivated and capable of working autonomously
• Strong written/verbal communication within a small team
• Excellent problem solving abilities
• Focus on writing simple decoupled code anyone can understand
• Demonstrable knowledge and/or example projects of Object Orientated Design
• Experience using advanced concepts like Inversion of Control, Dependency Injection, and Service locators
• Designed and implemented micro-services
• Built and deployed container based services (rkt, docker, rancher, k8s)
• Familiar with Symfony, Doctrine ORM, PHP League and requiring packagist/composer components
• Good knowledge of relational based databases (Bonus if MSSQL)
• Ability to effectively use Linux based development and production environments
• Strong experience designing, implementing and consuming REST based API resources
• Understanding of distributed systems architecture
• Eager to work directly on scaling a rapid growth global platform

Our offer
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• A competitive salary and equity package;
• Become critical member of the core team going forward;
• Be included in all decision making and will be making a difference to the business from day one.
• Have a direct feedback loop with the product (we push code multiple times a day).